Top 5 Blog Posts —July 20

Did you miss last week's most-read Changing Aging blog posts? Ecumen's online visitors found these articles most interesting:

Centenarian and Navy Veteran Doris Brand Taught Kids to Read and Pilots to Fly   
Doris Brand, who is 100, was born during World War I, taught in a one-room school in the 1920s, weathered the Great Depression, and became a Navy flight instructor in World War II.

Son's Heart-Wrenching Video Brings Attention to Father's Alzheimer's Disease
Brad Swientoniowski has captured the attention of thousands of viewers through a heart-wrenching video of his father's daily battle with Alzheimer's disease. Brad felt compelled to show the world that Alzheimer's is more than forgetfulness. 

Ecumen COO Shelley Kendrick Featured in Star Tribune’s Movers & Shakers
In the Star Tribune’s Movers & Shakers column, Shelley Kendrick, Ecumen Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer, talks about Ecumen’s mission, its initiatives to change aging and how the Affordable Care Act is changing the senior living landscape.

Ecumen Volunteers Help Out at the National Senior Games
The Ecumen Business Development Department joined the 2,500 volunteers who are helping run the National Senior Games being held in the Twin Cities this year. 

What It Means To Be Old: An Unexpected Lesson for the First Class of Ecumen Scholars
Ten student nurses interested in geriatric care recently came to Ecumen Pathstone Living for the inaugural Ecumen Scholars Fellowship Program. They left with an abiding lesson not taught in nursing school: What it means to be old.

You can read these articles and more at www.ecumen.org